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Why Rio's street artists hate the World Cup, and much more – the week in arthttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jun/13/world-cup-street-art-brazil-ai-wei-wei-art-weekly
Brazil's anti-World Cup graffiti, Antony Gormley's hotel room inside a Transformer, plus Ai Weiwei sparks an internet craze of 'leg-guns' and Glasgow School of Art's degree show goes ahead after the fire – <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/signup/2011/jul/08/art-weekly-newsletter-sign-up">all in your fave weekly dispatch</a><p><strong>Making Colour</strong><br />This exhibition looks into the rich and strange history of artists' pigments and reveals how paintings in the National Gallery collection use them to create complex beauty and vivid feeling.<a href="http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/vincent-van-gogh-sunflowers" title=""> Should be as summery as a sunflower</a>.<br />• <a href="http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/making-colour" title="">National Gallery</a>, London WC2N from 18 June until 7 September</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jun/13/world-cup-street-art-brazil-ai-wei-wei-art-weekly">Continue reading...</a>CultureArt and designCy TwomblyAi WeiweiBridget RileyGlasgow School of ArtStreet artChris OfiliNational GalleryJeff KoonsJMW TurnerFri, 13 Jun 2014 14:36:55 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jun/13/world-cup-street-art-brazil-ai-wei-wei-art-weeklyPRThe Bay of Baiae with Apollo and the Sibyl, by JMW Turner.The National Gallery Photographi/PRDetail from Combing the Hair, by Edgar Degas (c1896), from Making Colour. Click to see the full image. Photograph: courtesy the National GalleryThe National Gallery Photographi/PRCombing the Hair, by Edgar Degas (c1896), from
Making Colour. Photograph: The National Gallery PhotographiJonathan Jones2014-06-13T14:36:55ZTitian doesn't actually need sexing up – the week in arthttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jul/06/titian-gets-sexed-up-art-weekly
But the National Gallery's Metaphorphosis exhibition is free and fun so go along. Plus art from Africa in Manchester and Mud Wrestling in Glasgow – <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/signup/2011/jul/08/art-weekly-newsletter-sign-up" title="Sign up for our Art Weekly dispatch">all in your favourite weekly art dispatch</a><p>This is a first for the National Gallery. It has invited contemporary artists to respond to its collection before, but with <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jun/19/chris-ofili-royal-ballet-titian" title="">Chris Ofili</a> and <a href="http://www.artlyst.com/articles/mark-wallinger-and-chris-ofili-morph-at-royal-ballet" title="">Mark Wallinger</a> involved in a collaboration with the Royal Ballet to celebrate the 16th-century painter Titian, this is a bit of a glamour injection for a gallery that has sometimes seemed to revel in an old-fashioned image.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jul/06/titian-gets-sexed-up-art-weekly">Continue reading...</a>CulturePaintingNational GalleryArtTitianChris OfiliArt and designMark WallingerConrad ShawcrossRoyal BalletFri, 06 Jul 2012 11:17:18 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jul/06/titian-gets-sexed-up-art-weeklyThe National Gallery, London/The National Gallery, LondonSensual and real … The Death of Actaeon, by Titian,
1559-75. Photograph: The National Gallery, LondonThe National Gallery, London/The National Gallery, LondonSensual and real … The Death of Actaeon, by Titian,
1559-75. Photograph: The National Gallery, LondonJonathan Jones2012-07-06T11:17:18ZThe impressionists, Degas and Shepard Fairey – the week in arthttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jun/29/impressionism-degas-shepard-fairey
The French avant garde storm London's Royal Academy, plus shows from Peter Blake and Mark Wallinger, Olympic posters and Britain's biggest mural – <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/signup/2011/jul/08/art-weekly-newsletter-sign-up" title="">all in your weekly art dispatch</a><p>The art of the French avant garde in the 19th century always has the power to startle because it is always underestimated. Newspapers tend to see it as safe; art historians analyse its bourgeois ideology. But the public knows better. The reason <a href="http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/claude-oscar-monet" title="">Monet</a>, <a href="http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/pierre-auguste-renoir" title="">Renoir</a>, <a href="http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/edouard-manet" title="">Manet</a> and their contemporaries remain so popular is not because people want &quot;safe&quot; art. It is because we can recognise true inspiration when we see it. The <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/imml/hd_imml.htm/" title="">impressionists</a> captured the feel of modern life in a way that was unprecedented. There's a lightness and reality to their paintings that is the taste of the world we inhabit. In these paintings, as their contemporary <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/marx_karl.shtml" title="">Karl Marx</a> said of modernity, all that is solid melts into air.<br />• <a href="http://www.artfund.org/royal-academy-of-arts" title="">Royal Academy</a>, London W1, from 7 July until 23 September</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jun/29/impressionism-degas-shepard-fairey">Continue reading...</a>Peter BlakeArt and designChris OfiliTracey EminEdgar DegasExhibitionsPaintingArtPostersDesignStreet artCultureFri, 29 Jun 2012 10:18:23 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jun/29/impressionism-degas-shepard-faireyThe National Gallery/PRYoung Spartans Exercising, 1860, by Edgar Degas. Photograph: The National GalleryPRShepard Fairey's mural at the London Pleasure GardensSterling and Francine Clark Art Institute/PRAll that is solid ... The Cliffs at Etretat, 1885 (detail), by Claude Monet, in From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism. Photograph: Sterling and Francine Clark Art InstituteSterling and Francine Clark Art Institute/PRAll that is solid ... The Cliffs at Etretat, 1885, by Claude Monet, in From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism – Paintings from the Clark. Photograph: Sterling and Francine Clark Art InstituteJonathan Jones2012-06-29T10:18:23ZJenny Saville, Yoko Ono and Ai Weiwei – the week in arthttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jun/22/jenny-saville-yoko-ono-rembrandt-ai-weiwei
Saville is out to show she's the feminist Freud, Ono divulges her hopes, book tips and snapshots, and Ai Weiwei is barred from his own court hearing – <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/signup/2011/jul/08/art-weekly-newsletter-sign-up" title="">all in your weekly art dispatch</a><p>Is this painter of pungent flesh a feminist <a href="http://www.npg.org.uk/freudsite/" title="">Lucian Freud</a> for the 21st century... or an <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jun/09/jenny-saville-painter-modern-bodies" title="">overblown media phenomenon</a>? Saville has a striking style, but critics have never agreed on the quality of her work. Big red blotches of pigment do not guarantee brilliance. Here is a chance to make up your mind about an <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8050110.stm" title="">artist who straddles fine art and pop culture</a>.<br />&middot; <a href="http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/jenny-saville/about/" title="">Modern Art Oxford, from 23 June until 16 September</a></p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jun/22/jenny-saville-yoko-ono-rembrandt-ai-weiwei">Continue reading...</a>ArtPaintingCultureAi WeiweiChinaRembrandtYoko OnoDiane ArbusKarla BlackChris OfiliEdvard MunchFri, 22 Jun 2012 10:48:46 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jun/22/jenny-saville-yoko-ono-rembrandt-ai-weiweiAndy Wong/APAi Weiwei (third right), argues with a policeman outside his home in Beijing, where he says he was barred from the first hearing in his company's lawsuit against the tax authorities. Photograph: Andy Wong/APRobert McKeever/GuardianJenny Saville, Fulcrum, 1997-99, oil on canvas. Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photograph: Robert McKeever for the GuardianPublicity imageDividing critics … detail from Jenny Saville's Reverse, 2002-20. Oil on canvas. Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Click on image to enlargeRobert McKeever/GuardianJenny Saville, Fulcrum, 1997-99, oil on canvas. Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photograph: Robert McKeever for the GuardianJonathan Jones2012-06-22T10:48:46Z